MARNIE ELLEN HERTZLER

Oct. 18 2022

Hybrid Event

MARNIE ELLEN HERTZLER is a filmmaker living and working in Baltimore, Maryland. Her films often explore a multi-media approach to film presentation and distribution and have utilized live performance and installation to accompany her work.

Her first feature film, CRESTONE, is a hybrid-documentary set in a dystopian future where the last people alive are a group of SoundCloud rappers. CRESTONE premiered at True/False in 2020, and went on to play at SXSW, CPH:DOX, and many national and international programs and film festivals. CRESTONE was released digitally and on BlueRay in February of 2021 by Utopia Distribution. The original score composed by Animal Collective was released digitally and on vinyl in April 2021 by Domino Records.

Her previous award winning short films (DIRT DAUGHTER, HI I NEED TO BE LOVED, and GROWING GIRL) have screened at renowned film festivals such as Locarno, and IFFRotterdam, and have been programmed on The Criterion Channel, and in MoMA NYC.

In 2018 Marnie was named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film. She is an IFP Narrative Lab Fellow, and a MacDowell Fellow. Influenced by her background in both psychology and fine arts, she created films that act as cinematic platforms for the exploration of interpersonal relationships, the technology that defines us, and the inevitable end of it all.